Economy and market tips

Gold has no cap, and friends can gift anything to a new player. This page gathers the money rules and a few ways to use them well.

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Gold rules

There is no gold cap. An account can hold as much gold as it earns.
There is no trade lock for new accounts, so gifts to new players are allowed, for gold and for items alike.
Mail attachments carry any amount of gold you can afford, or up to 1,000 of one item, one attachment per mail, with postage. You can send 20 mails a day, and the receiver must be able to carry the items.
Gold never drops in a PvP death.
Gold and items have no cash value. See Refunds.

Merchants buy loot back with no fee in the current build.
The Exchange charges 2 percent of a sale by default, with a minimum of 1 gold, taken from the seller.
A player stall costs 250 gold for a 30-day lease and takes 5 percent of each sale.
Home upkeep is 20 gold a week plus 5 per structure level. Guild land costs 30 gold per tier each week.
The bank charges its own fees, see Bank.

Check the Exchange before you sell bulk goods to a merchant. A listing sets a price from 2 to 100,000 gold.
Place a buy order if you want a good at your own price. Its gold is held until the order fills, expires or is cancelled.
Listings last 48 hours, so reclaim anything unsold.
Craft what sells. Ore, ingots, lumber, planks and leather are traded in bulk, and crafting turns cheap materials into goods that sell for more.
Couriers earn from a shared courier budget, so repeat runs on one route build a streak bonus.

Written from the game as it is today. If a page and the game disagree, the game is right. Recent changes are listed in the changelog.